From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
From looking after the sheep which were giving milk, he took him to give food to Jacob his people, and to Israel his heritage.
From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.
From following the ewes that give suck he brought him, to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
From following the ewes - Instances of this kind are not unfrequent in the ancient Greek and Roman history. Croesus said that Gypes, who was the first of his race, was a slave, and rose to sovereignty, succeeding his predecessor, of whose sheep he had been the pastor.
From following the ewes great with younq - Margin, as in Hebrew, From after. The meaning is, that he followed after them; that is, he attended them, or watched over them as a shepherd. The single word rendered "the ewes great with young" - עול ‛ûl - is a participle from עלוה ‛âlâhô, to ascend, to go up; and then, to bring up, to nourish. The exact idea here is doubtless that of bringing up, or of sucking them, and the word should have been so translated here. It is so rendered by Luther. The idea in our translation has been derived from the Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate. The meaning is, that he brought him from being a shepherd to be the ruler of his people - expressed still in the language of a shepherd life.
To feed Jacob his people - Rather, to be a shepherd to them; to perform toward them the office of a shepherd, including the ideas of governing them, providing for them, and defending them. See the notes at Psalm 23:1-2.